Not Recipes but Maybe a Blog

Most of these are somehow related to the exploration of my grandmother’s cookbook, from researching ingredients and technique to searching for some of the people involved. But an occasional post might pop up about some of my other kitchen adventures. Because, after all, I do need cheese for the preserves and ground beef for the meat balls. 

Hamburg vs Ground Beef

Throughout this cookbook, Hamburg is used for various recipes. While intuitively I know this refers to a ground beef, I decided to do some research on the difference between "hamburg" and "ground beef" back in the 1970s when this was published. But the Hamburg vs...

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Who is Ruth Fagerstrom?

This cookbook is almost fifty years old, so it makes sense that so many of the people can't be tracked down online. However, this quote--presumably--introduced the book, so you would assume it would be easy to track down the author. When the apron she does don, It's...

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